Extending symfony2 web application framework : optimize, audit, and customize web applications with symfony / Sébastien Armand ; cover image by Suman Kumar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armand, Sébastien, author.

Contributor:

Suman Kumar, cover designer.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

PHP (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Armand Sebastien: Sebastien Armand is a software developer based in Beijing, China. He spent most of the past five years working with Symfony, building internal IT systems. He co-founded mashupsports. com, a social website for sports enthusiasts based on Symfony2. He contributed to Symfony and the Symfony documentation on many occasions.

Summary:

Symfony is a high performance PHP framework for developing MVC web applications. Symfony1 allowed for ease of use but its shortcoming was the difficulty of extending it. However, this difficulty has now been eradicated by the more powerful and extensible Symfony2. Information on more advanced techniques for extending Symfony can be difficult to find, so you need one resource that contains the advanced features in a way you can understand. This tutorial offers solutions to all your Symfony extension problems. You will get to grips with all the extension points that Symfony, Twig, and Doctrine o

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Services and Listeners; Services; A geolocation service; Testing services and testing with services; Tagging services; Listeners; Updating user preferences using custom events; Improving user performance; Code that works after the response; Summary; Chapter 2: Commands and Templates; Commands; The initial situation; Resizing user pictures; Testing a command; Commands as an interface to services; Twig; Managing our scripts; Testing a Twig extension; Time difference filter

SummaryChapter 3: Forms; An input for geographical coordinates; Setting up the basics; Using the map; Data transformers; Forms based on user data; Going further; Initial setup; Adding and removing fields; Summary; Chapter 4: Security; Authentication; Simple OAuth with GitHub; The firewall; The security factory; Authorization; Voters; Annotations; Defining an annotation; Securing controllers with custom annotations; Securing an API - an example; Summary; Chapter 5: Doctrine; Creating your own data types; User and meetup locations; Testing; Custom DQL functions; Versioning

Setting a version on all entitiesUsing and updating versions; Testing; Creating a Doctrine filter; Summary; Chapter 6: Sharing Your Extensions; Creating the bundle; Exposing the configuration; Getting ready to share; Research; Documentation; Testing; Distribution and licensing; Is it just a bundle?; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783287208

1783287209

OCLC:

875819045